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Sarah Palin / Wall Street Journal:
How Congress Occupied Wall Street — Politicians who arrive in Washington as men and women of modest means leave as millionaires. Why? — Mark Twain famously wrote, “There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” Peter Schweizer's new book, “Throw Them All Out …
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Don Surber, UrbanGrounds, Taylor Marsh, The Politico, Connecting.the.Dots, The Crawdad Hole and Daily Kos
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CBS New York:
OWS Protesters Chant ‘Follow Those Kids!’ As Small Children Try To Go To School On Wall Street — NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — They were caught in the middle of madness. — Some grade school students were forced to walk a gauntlet of screaming “Occupy Wall Street” protesters just to get to school on Thursday.
J J Anisiobi / Daily Mail:
Surely she's in the one per cent? Million dollar babe Anne Hathaway joins Occupy Wall Street protest — She is one of Hollywood's highest paid actresses and lives a very privileged lifestyle that 99 per cent of people can only dream of. — Still, Anne Hathaway acted as an average Joe …
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Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
Rolling Stone:
Woman Gets Jail For Food-Stamp Fraud; Wall Street Fraudsters Get Bailouts
Woman Gets Jail For Food-Stamp Fraud; Wall Street Fraudsters Get Bailouts
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CANNONFIRE and Political Mojo
Sarah B. Boxer / CBS News:
Herman Cain says OWS out to “destroy” America
Herman Cain says OWS out to “destroy” America
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The Moderate Voice, The Other McCain, Libertarian Republican and Associated Press
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
James O'Keefe's plans derailed by infighting, lack of funding
James O'Keefe's plans derailed by infighting, lack of funding
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The Confluence, The Political Carnival, Poynter, US Politics, CNN and Weasel Zippers
Eric Ostermeier / Smart Politics:
Untouchable: Is the GOP Field Afraid to Criticize Newt Gingrich in Debates? — The former House Speaker is the only candidate yet to be attacked at the seven debates conducted since Rick Perry joined the GOP field — With increased media scrutiny on new GOP presidential co-frontrunner …
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msnbc.com, GOP 12, National Review and A plain blog about politics
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Shawn Millerick / New Hampshire Journal:
Poll: Romney, Gingrich in statistical dead heat in N.H. — Two things are true about New Hampshire Republican primary voters. They vote for people they know. And they love an underdog with a comeback story. — Four years ago it was the weathered but feisty veteran John McCain who revived …
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GOP 12, Taegan Goddard's … and National Review
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Gingrich think tank collected millions from health-care industry — A think tank founded by GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich collected at least $37 million over the past eight years from major health-care companies and industry groups, offering special access to the former House speaker …
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Daily Kos, ABCNEWS, Betsy's Page, National Review, Rick Perry 2012 Campaign …, The Politico and The Page
Brody Mullins / Wall Street Journal:
Chamber of Commerce Paid Gingrich as a Consultant
Chamber of Commerce Paid Gingrich as a Consultant
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Los Angeles Times, ABCNEWS and Business Insider
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Gingrich Faces More Scrutiny Over Corporate Clients
Gingrich Faces More Scrutiny Over Corporate Clients
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Hot Air, 2012 Decoded, The Daily Caller, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*, Washington Examiner and ThinkProgress
New York Post:
Runaway mom dreadlocked up — Here's your mom, kids. Proud? — The hippie Florida mother of four who ditched her children and banker husband to sleep in Zuccotti Park's squalor hit rock bottom yesterday when she was hauled off in handcuffs, her dreadlocks flying wildly in every direction …
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Cara Buckley / New York Times:
Protesters Clash With Police in Lower Manhattan — Nearly a thousand protesters took to the streets of Lower Manhattan on Thursday, clashing with the police and tossing aside metal barricades to converge again on Zuccotti Park after failing in an attempt to shut down the New York Stock Exchange.
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ThinkProgress, Capital New York, TechCrunch, Booman Tribune, Hot Air, Metropolis, PolitickerNY, OWS Exposed and Jammie Wearing Fools
A.Killough / CNN:
Gingrich contrasts tea party, ‘Occupy’ protesters
Gingrich contrasts tea party, ‘Occupy’ protesters
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Ben Smith's Blog, The Politico, Weasel Zippers, The Hill and Hot Air
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Failure Is Good — It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a complete turkey! It's the supercommittee! — By next Wednesday, the so-called supercommittee, a bipartisan group of legislators, is supposed to reach an agreement on how to reduce future deficits.
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Firedoglake, Washington Monthly, The Hill, Northern Reflections, Prairie Weather and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*
Mary Jo Pitzl / Arizona Republic:
Court orders reinstatement of redistricting official — The Arizona Supreme Court Thursday evening reinstated the chairwoman of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, rebuffing Gov. Jan Brewer⊃1;s unprecedented action earlier this month. — The ruling came less than three hours …
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New York Times:
Editorial: Supreme Court Coverage of the Health Care Case
Editorial: Supreme Court Coverage of the Health Care Case
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SCOTUSblog, National Review, The Volokh Conspiracy and The Huffington Post
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
In win for Democrats, Arizona redistricting commissioner reinstated
In win for Democrats, Arizona redistricting commissioner reinstated
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The Politico and CNN
Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Bachmann: “I haven't had a gaffe” — Michele Bachmann, making the case on Fox News that she's the safest candidate in a rather jaw-dropping statement. … Besides small gaffes like confusing one John Wayne for another, mixing up the date of Elvis' birth with the date of his death …
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Kevinliptak / CNN:
Bachmann gives students a 101 on issues, then gets lectured
Bachmann gives students a 101 on issues, then gets lectured
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Zandar Versus The Stupid
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Cain receives Secret Service protection — Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain began receiving protection from the U.S. Secret Service Thursday, his campaign said, making the Georgia businessman the first GOP presidential contender to received stepped-up security on the campaign trail.
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Kevinliptak / CNN:
Secret Service confirms Cain protection
Secret Service confirms Cain protection
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Washington Post, The Reaction, Outside the Beltway, ABCNEWS and Business Insider
Wall Street Journal:
A Caveman Won't Beat a Salesman — Obama is somber but unserious. Glib unseriousness isn't the answer. — There is an arresting moment in Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs in which Jobs speaks at length about his philosophy of business. He's at the end of his life and is summing things up.
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Outside the Beltway and Althouse
Mj Lee / Reuters:
Alleged W.H. shooter: I am modern-day Jesus — Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, the 21-year-old man charged with attempting to assassinate President Barack Obama by firing shots at the White House, allegedly recorded a video pitch to send to Oprah Winfrey, in which he claims he is the “modern day Jesus Christ.”
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Runnin' Scared, The Daily What and The Politico
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Paul Duggan / Washington Post:
Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez charged with attempt to assassinate Obama
Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez charged with attempt to assassinate Obama
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Runnin' Scared, Towleroad News #gay and THEROOT.COM
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Technocratic Nightmare — During the first half of the 1990s, I lived in Brussels and wrote about the European Union, among other subjects, for The Wall Street Journal. This was the heyday of European integration. Helmut Kohl, François Mitterrand and Jacques Delors were in power …
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Daniel W. Drezner, No More Mister Nice Blog and Ben Smith's Blog
ESPN:
Syracuse's Bernie Fine placed on leave — Two former Syracuse University ball boys say they were molested by associate head basketball coach Bernie Fine, starting in the late 1970s and continuing into the 1990s. — Police in Syracuse said they have opened an investigation into the allegations.
Ashley Perks / The Hill:
Republicans want Obama to break the supercommittee's logjam — Republicans are calling for President Obama to jump into the deficit-reduction talks gripping Washington, reflecting the widespread view that the congressional supercommittee is now headed for a failure.
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Anti-Gay Iowa Leader Who Benefited From Gingrich's Donations Forgives Speaker For Marriage Infidelities — Last July, Iowa's FAMiLY Leader unveiled “The Marriage Vow: A Declaration of Dependence upon MARRIAGE and FAMILY,” a 14 bullet pledge presidential candidates will have to sign to secure any …
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Towleroad News #gay
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Rules Chairman David Dreier to vote against balanced-budget amendment — House Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier (R-Calif.) said he would vote against the balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution later this week, a high-profile Republican defection that will make it one vote harder …
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Washington Monthly, CNN and ThinkProgress